Im going on a holiday.

If you even notice, "I'm going on a holiday" and there is not even a trace of excitement in it.

coz Daddy and Mommy are going to Japan and Mommy booked me on a "7 days & 7 nights Hougang" stay.

How exciting...

But then again, on the brighter side, I get to be the QUEEN in the house and with Gong Gong and Por Por, Yiyi Eunice, Uncle Eugene and Jie Jie Amanda, Im gonna get sooooooo spoilt!



Ooooo......

here is my luggage and the many stuff to bring to make my stay comfortable.






- 10 sets of pyjamas
-10 sets of day wear
-4 sets of "going out" wear (in case grandma bring me out to the mall)
-4 purple towel blankie
-Monkkie Tan
-my pigeon steam sterilizer and all the teats n bottles in it
-my god-sent tu tu (pacifier)
-40 disposable diapers
-destin cream
-aloe vera gel
-my personal bath tub, organic body n hair wash and tummy oil
-face cloth
-cotton bud and cotto wool
socks, mittens and booties
-my braun thermometer
-my padetrician emergency contacts
-my favourite fisher-price bouncer
-stroller
-my mini pigeon scissors
-bean bag
-woodgripe water
-baby laundry powder and bottle wash, bottle brush and sponge
-my square cushion for "tummy time" naps
-my spider rattle toy and bell
-my 60 packets of frozen milk! (very organic)
-and a truckload of love from Daddy and Mommy.


While I bathe in warm milk in the mornings.... with Jie Jie Amanda feeding me grapes and Yiyi Eunice scrubing my feet...please excuse me for not blogging for the next few days...

Dun worry...If Im happy with the toys that Mommy and Daddy bought for me from Japan, I will "hao lian" them to you very soon :)

See what Mommy did to my hair!

There is always this debate of whether you should shave off your baby's hair.



It usually happens at the first month party and then another during the 4th month since birth.



My Mommy and Daddy had their hair shaven off when they were babies, in the light that their hair will grow neatly, nicely and hopefully more lucious.



However, there were also examples of babies with beautiful hair and they have not shaven it since birth.



So how?



Mommy adopted the "see-how-it-goes" plan.



She suggested to my Ah ma that they snip a bit of my hair as a formality during the first month celebration.








Then, as time goes by, there were more and more conflicting TO CUT and NOT TO CUT advices.



Mommy thought that she can, maybe, shave of a little portion of my hair and see if my hair really does grow faster.



Generally I have pretty healthy hair, just perhaps, very fine... Baby hair: )



At birth, I also have this "swirl" (whatever you call it) right smack near my forehead. I have another one at the spot where every other babies have it, at the top back of the head.






Its like something special about me that amuses many, but how is my fringe going to grow in future???



Mommy thought of Wilma Flintstone , the moment she saw it.

My future side profile.

Hi everyone, Im Gwenneth Tan.

So, back to the shaving hair issue.

Mommy chose a spot with the least opp cost (opportunity cost) and shaved it with a new disposable razor, which she happily took home from her hotel stay during her honeymoon.



and see what happens!







She guilty confessed to Daddy of her little experiment and Daddy laughed at my horrible bald spot.



Till date, for your information, it hasn't grown much.



Mommy whispered remorsefully into my ears... "Poor thing".

Mommy wears my name, close to her heart.

Sometime after I was born, Mommy designed a pendant on her own, bearing, ahemm, my beautiful name.

Gwen.

She was toying with the idea of either doing a pendant with a bare surface so that she can engrave my name on it, or do a name necklace, spelling out "g.w.e.n"

She then went on to google on different fonts and eventually decided on sketching it free hand, her very own handwriting, (with a personal touch) of my name as a name pendant.

Mommy searched for a goldsmith who is confident of making her idea materialise, and Daddy gladly paid for it and even suggested that Mommy should rim the whole name with diamonds.

Mommy tot that it would look too "Puff Daddy" and tone it down to 5 tiny diamonds on the initial "G" instead.

Mommy made a trip to the shop to take a look at the pendant before the raw white gold is polished and the diamonds are set.

BEHOLD!!!

Nice or not???

Luckily the whole project of making it, took merely a week.


If you know my Mommy well, she is the sort who cannot contain her excitement for nuts.

can you spot the Chio Chio necklace??

Mommy love it to the bits!

Just like the way she loves me! (and Daddy)

Elizabeth Khoo's Birthday party!!!

My little friend Elizabeth's birthday falls on a day before my Daddy's.

We were invited to her 2nd birthday party!

Mommy and Daddy and attended her full month, and also 1st birthday party... this birthday party was extra special because they now have me and its the 3 of us going to celebrate her little special day!

Mommy went shopping a week ago for her present... here is what we got for her!!!

Mommy's handmade card.

Mommy told me she will buy me birkies too when I turn 2 as that was the smallest size available. She will also get Daddy to buy her a pair of matching birkies as mine then!!!

Here I am, dressed to the nines... in my new "Chateau de sable" outfit!

Im growing out of outfits meant for 0-3mths!

"Am I pretty?"

Mommy and I took some pictures while waiting for Daddy to shower. He just came back from his Sunday soccer game.




Mommy loves me!



It was raining and Mommy put on my little pokka dot midriff cardigan.

Which i try to chew... yummy!

Mommy loves everything pokka dots for me.

Here is the birthday princess! She loves her new present from us! Elizabeth unstrapped her shoes immediately on her own, as her Mommy was untying the ribbons and revealed a pair of new sandles!

she put them on excitedly anyway, even thou they were slightly too big!

Lizzie Khoo and her gorgeous Mommy!

She blew out the candles immediately after it was lighted up! So cute!

Daddy trying to pacify me when everyone else was singing the birthday song...

The squirmy worm.

Inconsolable.

Still crying...

Mom~ you preparing milk?

Is my milk warmed up in the bottle already?

Daddy comforts...

Mommy! Milk leh!!!

I make new friends

After that, Daddy and Mommy brought me to Raffles City to drop the pen off for engraving , which Mommy bought for Daddy as his birthday present.

Mommy take pictures again, while the maid changes my diapers.

Mommy, can you put the pacifier back into my mouth first???

Daddy and I, with clean diapers!

I was cranky at the toys department.

Mommy hugged me and walked around, distracting me with colourful stuffed toys while Daddy read up on the boxes of educational toys seriously.

Finally, after discussing with Mommy among a couple of toys, Daddy decided to get me this "LittleTouch LeaPad"



Daddy thought it was totally cool and its definately worth every cent!

It is operated by a cartridge and a book that comes along with it for every title that is sold separately.

Daddy bought me "Baby's first words" for a start!

All I have to do, is to press on the words with my tiny fingers and the LeapPad will read out the word aloud for me!It also prompt me to do actions with my body too, as i play along with Daddy and Mommy.



Cool huh!!

Daddy, you are awwwwwesome!!!

Daddy's Birthday!

Its my Papa's "very late twenties" birthday on the 21st August, and we took a family picture at home before Daddy and Mommy went out for a romantic dinner



















"ROMANTIC" = without me.

"Happy birthday Daddy!"

Love you always,

Gwen

Sayonara...Daddy and Mommy...sobs...

Daddy and Mommy are going for a AIA convention to Japan, Osaka and Tokyo in early September and is leaving me behind :(



My por por will be looking after me and feeding me with packets of frozen breastmilk.



i would on average drink 120ml per feed and about 8 feeds a day.



(120ml x 8) x 6days =5760ml



Mommy has to pump out almost 6 litres of milk by next week!!

Mommy's frezzer filled with my milk..in the blue cooler too!

I tell you...they taste really yummy after defroze

M-I-N-E!!!!!!!





This will be Mommy's first holiday away from me.





Sometimes I cry so much that she spitefully said she needed to have a stay in Shaolin Si for a few days for a retreat.





But Mommy was joking only lah.

Hrmm... right Mommy? -.-"




Mommy bought me a monkey blankie that she hugs to sleep for the past week. I get to hug it and hold it in my smelly fist in the day.

She will then let me sleep with this comfort blankie when she is away in case i miss the smell of Mommy...

May i introduce my my little friend,

Monkkie, Tan Monk Kie.

Say hello to everyone!

Me, Gwenneth Tan Rui Xuan, with my classmate, Monkkie Tan Monk Kie.

During the last few months of Mommy's pregnancy, she reckoned that reading up on "how to care for a baby" is far more important than "pregnancy weekly" books.


She spent a lot of time at Kinokuniya, reading and choosing books that teaches her the monthly progess of a baby developments and what "to do" and "not do" for a newborn.


Till date, she only bought one copy of baby magazine. ..Coz she felt that reading up on baby magazine is not econmical. The rules of bringing up a baby stays the same for years. So buying a book makes more sense.


Mommy learnt that in the first few months of my life, my vision is blurred and I can only tell apart black, white and shades of grey.



So Mommy bought some black and white cardstock and cut out some patterns for me to learn to focus, with my tiny eyes.






...and i love it!



i could stare at it for sometime before i get bored and cry for a hug.






Mommy bought flashcards too! I cant wait to learn to point at my little toes and says
"tooooessss"


this will definately amuse my Grandpa and in return, i get lots of new toys!!


Wha ha ha ha!


But Mommy says she will not start on the flashcards till i turn 3 months. She felt that I deserve all the hugs and kisses for now and have a happy "babyhood" for as long as i can.

Yawn....

Mom~~ its getting boring...

Mommy! Recess time already lah!!!

hee...it works :)

Monkkie was named after my Mommy's email address monkkie@hotmail.com. Come to think of it, Mommy said that she had this email since she was 17 and its hrmmm.....11 years ago. Mommy is getting old.

and i poke his ears...




Mommy had to answer to all the frowns she had, they judged that my Mommy is a bad Mommy to leave me behind and go for a holiday.


Its just 6 days.



But Mommy firmly believes that its important to have quality bonding time with Daddy, away from feeding and crying and everything that revolves just about ME.



"It is only if Daddy and Mommy are loving, that I will have a complete and happy family and they can bring me up in a home full of love and joy."



Don't you agree?